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In relativistic heavy ion collisions, heavy flavor is expected to result predominately from initial hard parton–parton scatterings. Hence, in the absence of later stage effects, the production of heavy flavor in A+A collisions can be viewed as a superposition of N+N collisions. Measurements of v2 or RAA of heavy flavor (or their decay electrons) in A+A collisions violate the simple superposition picture and therefore present themselves as probes of the medium formed in such collisions. On the basis of the measured v2 and RAA of non-photonic single electrons in A+A collisions at RHIC, we will investigate the interplay between these observables as well as the restrictions they pose for charm and bottom production.
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Laue, F. v2 and RAA of non-photonic single electrons: which restriction do the current measurements pose on the production of charm, beauty?. Eur. Phys. J. C 49, 371–374 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0121-6
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